Chapter 277: The Veteran and the Young
Sampdoria, who had conceded the goal, kicked off and the game resumed.
The home fans at the Friuli Stadium disturbed Sampdoria with a variety of sounds, which were clearly transmitted via satellite signals to the ears of Sampdoria fans who were not there to watch the game.
Feng Shiyu, Xiao Yingying and other Chinese students gathered in the bar to watch the game.
As those international students who are about to graduate, there are not many opportunities to watch Gao Zheng's games in such a close place, and every game is worth cherishing.
Of course, they hope that Gao Zheng can break Nodal's record and make history, and they also hope that Sampdoria can reach next season's Champions League - although they will most likely not be there or watch the game in this bar, they hope that Gao Zheng can break out of Genoa, break out of Italy, and show his talent on a broader and more high-profile stage like the Champions League.
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In the 63rd minute, when Gao Zheng took the ball in the front of the Udinese penalty area, he made a feint, and was pulled to the ground by Udinese central defender Madhi Benatia, which was a very obvious foul and undisputed.
But when the referee blew the whistle, awarded Benatia a foul and showed him a yellow card, there were huge boos over the Friuli Stadium.
There are many fans in the stands who have made a "diving" action, which is often used to describe the player's fake fall, the specific action is to put the two arms close together and make a forward planing action, which looks like a diving into the water, but in fact, it means falling, so it is used to describe the fake fall.
Players will sometimes use this action to indicate to the referee that the opposing player has faked a fall.
Because Gao Zheng is not strong enough, he often falls to the ground when he confronts opposing opposing players. Under the malicious rendering of the media, it finally became a label that Gao Zheng likes to fake falls, and those opponent fans will use this to black Gao Zheng.
But Gao Zheng never argued about this issue.
He turned a deaf ear to the boos in the stands, and he also turned a blind eye to the gestures of fake falls.
When the Udinese players protested around the referee, he rolled over and sat on the ground, and after tidying up his socks, he was pulled up by team-mate Obiang.
Obiang pulled him up and stuffed the football into his arms as well.
Now everyone knows that Sampdoria's number one free-kick taker is Gao Zheng.
Seeing Gao Zheng placing the football, goalkeeper Burkic greeted his teammates: "Don't protest!" Come and build a human wall! Wall! ”
Although Gao Zheng has not scored too many free kicks this season, the two free kicks in that game still left a deep impression, and because of this impression, everyone now seems to default that Gao Zheng's free kick scoring ability is outstanding.
So those Udinese players didn't go to the referee anymore, and they all came to line up the wall.
Since Benatia is a central defender for Udinese, the place where he fouled is actually very close to the penalty area, and basically in the middle of the area, and the free kick in this position is very dangerous.
Therefore, Udinese lined up a wall of eight people in one go, leaving almost no room for goalkeeper Burkic to observe, which can also be seen how seriously Udinese attaches importance to this free kick defense.
Brkic had to let them go a little bit to the left, completely block the left half of the goal, and flow out of the right half to himself.
After the human wall was lined up, he deliberately moved two small steps forward.
Gao Zheng, who stood and waited for them to line up the wall after setting up the football, did not say anything, but Obiang shouted to protest and complain to the referee, and under the pressure of the referee, the wall of Udinese had to retreat again.
When everything was ready, the referee turned to Gao Zheng and raised the whistle in his hand to signal to him, which means that you must listen to my whistle, if I don't blow the whistle, you can't kick.
Gao Zheng nodded to indicate that he understood.
It was only when the referee stepped away from the football.
When he had retreated to a suitable distance, he observed the situation again, and then blew the whistle in his mouth.
As soon as the whistle sounded, Gao Zheng stepped forward, supported his body with his right foot, and kicked the football with his left foot!
After the football was kicked by him, he drew a very, very obvious arc in the air, which went around the upper left corner of the human wall and drilled into the upper left corner of the goal!
Udinese's goalkeeper Burkic is guarding the right half, and it will be very difficult for him to save the ball in the top left corner from the right.
Gao Zheng took advantage of this - this is not unusual, everyone can think of this, but how many people can accurately control their footwork to such an extent? If you say hit your top left corner, you won't hit your bottom left corner!
When Burkic saw the football flying around the human wall, he hurriedly moved two steps sideways and took off into the air to pounce, but it was too late, the height of the hasty jump was not enough, and the strength was not enough, and he didn't pounce on the football at all, and there were still 108,000 miles away from the ball......
The ball flew into the goal at the junction of the left post and the crossbar!
“GAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!! High! GAOL!! Caressa roared excitedly, "He did it!" Brace! In the eleventh minute of conceding the goal, he helped Sampdoria equalize! It was also his 33rd league goal of the season! Now he is just two goals away from Nodal's record of 35 goals! In his state...... Is two goals still a gap?! ”
"Of course not!!" The Chinese students in front of the TV roared.
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After scoring the goal, Gao Zheng stood in place with a smile and hugged the excited teammates who rushed up to celebrate the goal. His teammates seemed happier than he was.
He himself, on the contrary, was very calm.
Udinese's captain Di Natale slapped his teammates to comfort and encourage him, and at the same time set his eyes on Gao Zheng, who was surrounded by Sampdoria players.
He was a late bloomer and did not become famous in Empoli until he was twenty-seven years old. Before the age of 30, his most Serie A goal was scored by just 17 goals.
His first Serie A appearance was in the 2002-2003 season, when he scored thirteen goals, and the top scorer was so far away that he never thought about it.
But the young man in front of him, who is only 22 years old when he played in Serie A for the first time, has already scored 33 goals in the season, is far ahead of the scorer charts, and has several big hopes of winning the league's golden boot.
The talents of the two people are really very different.
Di Natale never felt like that kind of genius, he was just an ordinary striker who worked quietly and was a little luckier.
It stands to reason that he and Gao Zheng are completely incomparable.
But when he was already thirty-five years old, when he saw such a talented young man appear in front of him, he suddenly had the intention of having a good competition with him.
He saw a surging power in this young man, who was a little unruly in the mouth of public opinion.
Competing with such a young person, it seems that I am also a little younger......
Originally, he was pleased with the fact that he had scored twice in this game, completing the first feat in Serie A history with 20 goals in four consecutive seasons.
But now he suddenly felt that how could he be satisfied with such a result?
You can't let this arrogant boy look down on himself!
He is thirty-five years old, the other party is twenty-three, twelve years older than him, and almost the entire career of some players.
If you are compared to the other party, wouldn't you be sorry for your extra 12 years of professional experience?
We can't let him continue to show off like this on our home turf!
We can't let Sampdoria take even a single point away from our home stadium!
Thinking of this, Di Natale said to his frustrated teammates: "Don't worry, remember to pass me the ball later in the game!" ”
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